San Antonio airport sets new passenger record ahead of...

1of 51Travelers make their way Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018 through San Antonio International Airport the day before Thanksgiving.Photo: William Luther, Staff / San Antonio Express-News

2of 51Travelers make their way Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018 through San Antonio International Airport the day before Thanksgiving.Photo: William Luther, Staff / San Antonio Express-News

3of 51Travelers make their way Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018 across a pedestrian bridge at San Antonio International Airport the day before Thanksgiving, traditionally one of the busiest travel days of the year.Photo: William Luther, Staff / San Antonio Express-News

4of 51Travelers make their way Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018 across a pedestrian bridge at San Antonio International Airport the day before Thanksgiving, traditionally one of the busiest travel days of the year.Photo: William Luther, Staff / San Antonio Express-News

5of 51Travelers make their way Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018 through San Antonio International Airport the day before Thanksgiving.Photo: William Luther, Staff / San Antonio Express-News

6of 51The following are all the non-stop flights you can take out of San Antonio International Airport.Photo: John Davenport

San Antonio International Airport is on track to exceed 10 million passengers this year after hitting a record in October — if traveler traffic continues to take off during the busy holiday travel season.

Nearly 900,000 travelers —a record — boarded flights or flew into the San Antonio airport in October, a 12 percent increase over the 687,000 who did so during the same month last year.

Airport officials announced the record as they geared up for the Thanksgiving weekend, the busiest travel period of the year.

About 4.1 million Texans are expected to travel to their Thanksgiving destination this week, according to estimates from AAA Texas, That’s up 4.7 percent from the 2017 holiday weekend. Of those, 264,000 will hop on a plane.

About 7,000 travelers had passed through TSA checkpoints at San Antonio International Airport as of 8 a.m. today, airport spokesman Rich Stinson said. All-told, officials expect about 15,000 travelers to board flights out of the airport today, more than last year.

The scene at the airport Wednesday was calm, a result of increased staffing by vendors and the TSA, Stinson said. Travelers waited no longer than 17 minutes to go through security checkpoints, he said.